BATTLE OF ASIA: The Watch on Burma

The Burma keystone of Japanese
strategy in Asia was under close surveillance:

> Chinese reports said
that 30,000 Japanese, replete with collapsible boats and other war
gear, were massed across the Salween River apparently ready to strike
toward Kunming, 230 miles eastward on the route to Chungking.

> Six
Japanese divisions, about 90,000 men, were said to be packed into
Burma, more than enough to garrison the country, perhaps the beginnings
of enough to attack India. The R.A.F. and U.S. airmen in India bombed
Mandalay, Mingaladon, Toungoo, the Jap positions on the...